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One of the most surprising announcements from today's Apple shindig (at least to me) was the iFund from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. This $100 million fund will invest in companies, large or small, that want to develop innovative apps for both the iPhone and the iPod touch.Use Spotlight as a reference tool. Type any word in the Spotlight box and one of the top entries will be a definition. Click on it, and it will bring up the dictionary application to check the word in either the dictionary, thesaurus, Apple database, or Wikipedia.
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andy said 3:38PM on 3-06-2008
Great news, normally they don´t invest in companies under 50$ or even 100$ millions/year. Good to see some enthusiasm from those guys!
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Macroy said 4:08PM on 3-06-2008
Can I somehow leverage this to get them to give me the $99 to test out random demo code I find on the intern--I mean, that my Indie Dev Company, Macroy Productions, develops completely on its own?
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artifex said 4:09PM on 3-06-2008
You can test code all you want. The SDK is free.
Macroy said 4:16PM on 3-06-2008
The staff here at Macroy Productions wishes to run live demonstrations of possibly controversial NES emulation software to align our stratagems with our paradigm shifts on our roadmap to enterprise interoperability. On my iPhone. I mean...in its intended end-user environment.
andy said 4:15PM on 3-06-2008
To publish programs, pay $99 developer fee. Development is free.
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Jupp said 4:17PM on 3-11-2008
Erica you have the best chance to get some of this bucks.
Or you keep on giving them to us for free!?
regarts Jupp
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ipodrulz said 9:09PM on 3-06-2008
KPCB said that they (apple and them) were planning on starting companies together......spinoff!?
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